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Till' tlinbiTlauda owned by the 

 puny uro extremely valuable, as i 

 siill l8 very fertile. 



The manufacturing operations i 

 In ihorge of H. J. Thlel, who ttsslsi 

 In the bulUllDg of the present ni 

 Mr. Thlel Is an efficient mill mauai 

 anil haH proven a valuable part of i 



(irKauUatlon. 



Again referring to the tlraberlnml 

 ownetl by the company. It Is stnteil 

 that the lonc-ern now has a tutal 

 acreage of about 7,000 acres wllh jin 

 average stand of about 15.000 foci 

 per acre. The original holdings won- 

 augmented In 1917 through the pur 

 chase of a substantlol portion of the 

 famous -Luehrniann timber in the St. 

 Francis basin. The Brown company 

 purchased that portion of the tliii 

 ber adjacent to its own holdings. It 

 now has n run ahead of from sl.x tn 

 seven years. 



The story recorded here would nut 

 be complete without spcclflc refei- 





Filcr-K S/inofc 



.ii.c their important cedar Interests. 

 This company hos specialized dls 

 tinctly In Tennessee aromatic rcil 

 cedar for a good many years, and 

 as a matter of (act has developed th<- 

 red cedar business as no other com- 



:3im^Mmim 



ihlte oak In the South, will produce 

 large number of veneer logs. A 

 ' ry substantial operation will handle 

 Ills output, the logs being brought 

 iiio the mill by a considerable 

 ngth of standard gauge railroad. 

 I'he company does Its own logging 

 nil a well balanced outllt, running 



n some llfteen miles of tram road 

 rough Its Arkansas operations. It 



iMcates Helsler locomotives, two 

 ^kldders, one u Nelf-propeliing Clyde, 

 ;ind one modern loader. 



The Itrown company typlQes the 

 modern trend of merchundizing of 

 hardwood lumber. It has been pre- 

 viously mentioned that its specialties 

 were figured gum and Tennessee aro- 

 matic red cedar. It might be more 

 proper to say that the cedar end Is 

 really the specialty, while the gum 

 specializing Is the result of the fact 

 iliat the company has such a splen- 



il supply of very highly figured stock 



li its timbcrland. 



Specialization in red cedar has led 

 rough rather interesting devclop- 

 ■nts, which originated with its 

 rmer days and location In the 

 :shvllle territory. It is through 

 is section that the bulk of the com- 



pany has. It Is now stated definitely 

 that It produces as much of this nm- 

 terial as all other firms in the country 

 combined. 



In addition to its other holdings, 

 the company has in Chicot county. 

 Arkansas. 30,000,000 feet of timber 

 running largely oak and ash. They 

 expect at some later date to install 

 a mill to work this out, but for the 

 present they will dispose of their logs 

 to mills in their territory and will 

 soon have an accumulation of logs 

 ready for the market. 



In Mississippi, the company has 

 other timber holdings running about 

 60,000,000 feet, largely very Uno 

 forked leaf white oak and cow oiik. 

 It is expected a mill will be erected 

 here also, although the mill location 

 has not been decided upon. It is 

 expected that this tract, which is one 

 of the finest remaining tracts of 



Micrclal red cedar is found and the 

 rompany's red cedar trade was 

 built up through close personal 

 iinalysls and cultivation of sources 

 ..f supply. 



In the figured gum end, as stated. 

 the development has come merely be- 

 cause figured gum has been so promi- 

 nent and important a part of the 

 George C. Brown product. This com- 

 pany built a substantial reputation 

 iin its gum production some time be- 

 fore organized exploitation of this 

 remakable wood was attempted, and 

 has greatly assisted In the develop- 

 ment of standard markets for this 



So far as both of these lines of 

 sjif piallzatlon are concerned, it ap- 

 l".ii< In. Ill what the company is still 

 .1 iiiiL- that it is equipped to carry it 

 al'.iiL; ill the present way for an in- 

 definite period ahead. 



